"Americans can't seem to get enough of murder mysteries, and Hollywood can't seem to stop making them. But few, if any, can hold their own against The Night Of. The 2016 miniseries starts with-what else?-a murder. Nasir Khan, a scrawny Pakistani American college student living with his parents in Queens, sneaks out and drives his dad's taxi to a party in Manhattan."
"The characters are well developed and unpredictable-perhaps none more so than John Stone, Nasir's gruff public-defense attorney. Played by John Turturro, he spends almost as much time trying to free Nasir from prison as he does kvetching about his eczema. But the real genius of The Night Of is how it inverts the whodunit: The question of who killed Andrea is secondary to the devastating toll the murder leaves on everyone else."
Not all TV shows need to run for years to tell their stories. Americans favor murder mysteries, and The Night Of delivers a 2016 miniseries that begins with a murder. Nasir Khan, a Pakistani American college student, takes his father's taxi to a Manhattan party, wakes to find Andrea stabbed, and has no memory. Forensic evidence implicates him and he is charged. John Stone, his gruff public‑defense attorney, balances legal effort with personal quirks. The series emphasizes the devastating toll of the crime on everyone involved rather than solely solving who committed it. Unorthodox premiered in March 2020 and follows Esty Shapiro fleeing a Hasidic community to Berlin.
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